کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2427436 1553189 2009 5 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
What is geometric information and how do animals use it?
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علوم کشاورزی و بیولوژیک علوم دامی و جانورشناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
What is geometric information and how do animals use it?
چکیده انگلیسی

Unlike investigations of animals’ use of spatial cues such as landmarks, studies of sensitivity to the geometry of surfaces in an enclosure have proceeded mostly as an attempt to explain a laboratory finding with few direct tests of how animals use such a cue in nature. In this brief review, I discuss the current debate over whether global or local information from the enclosure drives the typical rotational error pattern in such studies. A consideration of the form and function of geometric cues in natural settings suggests that the natural boundaries for which arena walls are considered analogous might better be thought as landmarks. With a clearer picture of what geometric information is and how it might be used in nature, the generality of findings from laboratory studies of geometry enclosure can be better assessed.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Behavioural Processes - Volume 80, Issue 3, March 2009, Pages 339–343
نویسندگان
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